NEW YORK,
Oct. 29, 2018 /Christian Newswire/
-- Laurie Cardoza-Moore, founder of nationally recognized "watchdog" group
Proclaiming Justice To The Nations (PJTN),
an organization which has remained continually active on the frontline
confrontation of anti-Semitism for more than a decade, today issued a
warning in the wake of Saturday's tragedy in Pittsburgh.

"It is
long past time to confront the growing danger posed by the dramatic rise of
anti-Semitism in America. We must examine how our society, including our
churches and education system, is helping to enable this threat making not
just our Jewish communities vulnerable, but all people. History has shown
that anti-Semitism doesn't stop with the Jewish community; this hatred will
soon be directed at other people of faith as well," noted Cardoza-Moore
today.

Proclaiming Justice to The Nations was birthed with the dual mission of
confronting and educating against the growing rise of anti-Semitism in the
church and around the world. The organization exists with a core value of
educating Christians, Jews and all people of conscience to stand against
this threat in communities across this country and globally.

Cardoza-Moore
cites the seldom recognized aspect of 'replacement theology' as fuel for
anti-Semitism in America. Robert Bowers, a Christian Nationalist quoted from
New Testament scriptures to legitimize his anti-Semitic, replacement
theology doctrine, as he murdered 11 members of the Jewish community in
Pittsburgh.

"We have
been sounding the alarm since 2005 about this growing threat. One of the
most disturbing trends is the expanded teaching of 'replacement theology,' a
2,000-year-old false doctrine, being espoused by a growing number of
Christian pastors and church leaders in many religious institutions in
America," stated Cardoza-Moore.

Replacement theology is a heretical teaching that teaches that the church
has replaced Israel and God is finished with the Jews. In 2009, PJTN
produced an award-winning documentary titled, The Forgotten People,
Christianity and the Holocaust that exposes the false doctrine of
replacement theology and the shocking history of Christian anti-Semitism.

To add
fuel to this fire, Cardoza-Moore noted, "Anti-Semitic and anti-Israel
content in our U.S. textbooks and instructional materials has also given
rise to violence against Jewish students on secondary school campuses. We
have witnessed a continuous rise in anti-Semitic incidents on college
campuses and on social media platforms with little to no response from
university administrators. They continuously cite the 'free speech rights'
of students to perpetuate and thus legitimize this growing threat.
Unfortunately, it took Saturday's horrific attack on a Jewish community for
law enforcement and the media to finally condemn the anti-Semitic posts on
social media."

In its
annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
found that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. rose 57 percent
in 2017 -- the largest single-year increase on record and the second highest
number reported since ADL started tracking such data in 1979.

The sharp
rise was in part due to a significant increase in incidents in schools and
on college campuses, which nearly doubled for the second year in a row.
"Unfortunately, if Americans don't think anti-Semitism is on the rise in the
U.S., they need to think again," notes Cardoza-Moore.